No he isn't. The point is to share his opinion
You're acting like an opinion can't ever be at the center of a protestation.
You're acting like an opinion isn't
usually at the center of a protestation.
You're acting like the right to have an opinion somehow absolves the person giving it of having to hear it scrutinized, picked apart, confronted and rebutted.
The point of sharing his opinion wasn't to just "share his opinion" as a helpful heads-up to his fans, at least not solely. He was stepping forward to be the face of disgruntled Ghostbusters fans. That's what he did. Nobody asked him to do that, he just did it.
That he's eating some shit for it shouldn't be surprising, nor is it "disgusting," nor is the fact people are writing articles about him and calling the purity of his opinion into question "gross," that's
how this works. Nobody speaking to an audience
that big is going to get the benefit of the doubt about their intentions, ever. It's how anyone making any sort of semi-political statement is recieved. That he chose to get political over fuckin'
Ghostbusters is weird, maybe. Silly, even. But that's what he did. There's inherent unfairness there, yeah, but then again, people seem to think it's even more unfair that Ghostbusters is getting remade in a manner they don't approve of.
Still less than 5k dislikes on a video seen 1.5mil times. So obviously the scandal here isn't
that scandalous, if we're going by the fair and rational metric we've been asked to use for the Ghostbusters trailers themselves.
Looks like even
if people make sideways insinuations that a low-level, even subconscious sexism might be at play, those insinuations aren't carrying all that much weight. Certainly no scarlet letter or anything similar.